I like this "painting on ridges" technique. It works best with a reduced palette, or a low density underlying texture.

And here is Curve Textures #2 recolored.

Here I revisit Curve Textures #12 with coordinated colors.

In this image there is more coordination between the colors and the texture than in the previous.

Several more follow without words. I am just being lazy, and too often I just say what is obvious in the picture.

If you put words in the comments, I will add words to the post.

The background color is just there. It is remotely related to the texture pattern. Right now, I am more interested in the texture / shading. So I did not put much effort into the background colors.

I am revisiting some ideas from earlier in the Workshop 202306 series. Here I am using curves and lines to create shading and shadows. In the past I would have drawn the curves using different colors. That shadowing creates quite a different impression (unintended, but serendipitous, pun).

This is almost a continuation of the Workshop series. But that series was getting long, and there are enough of these with a common theme, so I am breaking them out into a new series.

Well, the blog has been idle for a week now. I have been busy with other stuff, and just feeling lethargic in general. None of that has really changed.

But if I indulge in the laziness it takes over, so I need to push through it. So I am posting something today.

Variant 5

Same set up as Workshop 202306 #28 . Compare blend and paint-over.

Variant 4